Help usb hdd content slows down android tv

[gaspedalo]

Hi, I have got a Philips UHD TV with Android TV. I use an external hdd, plugged to usb, to host my movie collection. The harddrive also contains a lot of backup data. After connecting the harddisk to the TV, it seams that the TVs performance gets superslow.

So my question is, can I exclude a folder on that disc, so that android won't read it? It' a NTFS formated disc.

Thanks for ideas!

 

[Pugs1957]

You need to format your HDD to FAT32. Android is not compatible with NTFS

 

[gaspedalo]

Thanks pugs, but my TV reads the NTFS disc. Do you think that those performance troubles might disappear if android could write to disc too?
(Changing the discs format is quite an action, I'd like to avoid it)

 

[Pugs1957]

Hmm I have to admit I'm not sure. I certainly know that Android devices cannot read NTFS. It could be the cause of your problem but if you format to FAT32 you will then be restricted to file sizes of less than 4GB which is probably not very helpful for UHD media. I guess the only way to tell is to try it but it could be quite a job

 

[gaspedalo]

Well I think the problem was not the disc format. Obviously Android reads and wrtites to the ntfs disc. In the meantime the performance troubles have disappeared. I assume that it had something to do with the mp3 collection. Android indexed all my mp3 for google player (this was not intended by me), and that took all the performance. Once it's done, everythings fine again.